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02/28/2012

The March Issues

It’s been a wild month.

Kate Upton had her Esquire cover debut (sort of), Tebowmania got its close-up, and Details... continued to be Details. In short, a lot of madness. We’ve pieced through it all below, article by article and suit by suit, and come away with this, an unusually pithy executive summary.

Here’s everything you need to know from March’s crop of magazines:

GQ (194 Pages)

The magenta cover is starting to worry us, if only because it matches both Paul Rudd’s shirt and Jennifer Aniston’s lipstick.

Zegna’s going for the artful, FedEx-envelope wrinkle in their latest crop of blazers.

David Hart’s shantung ties were made for glossy mags. Beautiful stuff, and exactly right for this moment in menswear. Seek them out.

In the back, they give some love to military totes. If more people start making them, this could be a bona fide thing.

We know you’ve seen Clooney in them, and the Burkman guys, but you should still think really, really hard before you put on a Hawaiian shirt. If you’re more than 10 miles from a beach and it still seems like a good idea, think harder.

The Oliver Goldsmith shades are looking pretty good—the sweet spot between Robert Evans and late Capote.

And just in case the spring style catalog had you ramped up, here’s seven pages of wrenching layoff stories. They’re good, but... damn.

Details (188 pages):

“Is Your Diet Making You Go Bald?” There it is, right on the cover, proof that Details is the glossy incarnation of your hypochondriac ex-roommate who eventually had to be hospitalized.

Those $300 tumblers are actually quite tasteful.

Details and Esky are both pushing the new crop of ultrathin PCs. Quite possibly the least sexy thing in either magazine—and that includes the text-only roundup of social media experts.

This issue’s words of wisdom come from the first of their 31 rules of casual style: “Fit is everything. Bring a tailored aesthetic to even your most easygoing clothes.” Words to live by, especially as more gents learn how a suit should fit.

Obligatory insanely Details-y piece of the month: a service piece about “vanity” muscles, which help you look like a male stripper without actually bothering to get strong. It’s illustrated by three pages of naked, waxed torsos.

Best thing in the magazine: the three-pager on “known donors” who donate sperm to lesbian couples, but stay present in their children’s lives. It’s a throwback to the Details that published Eggers and Chabon.